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John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA

Los Angeles, California
Completed 1995

Academic building with central courtyard
 

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AGSM is the second largest building at UCLA on one of its most important sites. The challenge was to integrate its 270,000 s/f mass within a complex campus setting so as to benefit not only the management school but also the university as a whole.

The building's language, materials and modest scale are all informed by the nearby historic campus core. A bucolic creek, a multilevel garage, and a key campus walkway otherwise border the site. In solution, AGSM was designed not as a single building, but as a campus within a campus, permeable and fragmented in response to both the varied site and to a multifaceted client institution with diverse programmatic requirements. The five-story complex consists of seven components, each distinct but linked on several levels so that it functions internally as a whole. At center is an outdoor plaza that invites personal interaction and community as it emphasizes circulation.

AGSM was designed as a pivotal campus crossroads. It maximizes its sloped site with access to the outdoors on four of its five levels and provides a much-needed link between UCLA's upper and lower compounds. It acknowledges its privileged site by providing new and very useful pedestrian paths, by augmenting UCLA's memorable and attractive spaces, and by extending the rich architectural traditions of the University's academic core.

Major Components

154,000 s/f MBA Halls (3); 5,400 s/f Convocation Hall (420-seats); 50,700 s/f library; 31,350 s/f Executive Education Center; 35,800 s/f Commons Building; 3 pedestrian bridges; Anderson Court 48'-5" radius; underground parking for 80 cars below courtyard

Awards

Pei Cobb Freed & Partners services

Master Planning, Complete Architectural Services; Interior Design; coordination with executive architect on construction documents and construction administration

Executive Architect

Leidenfrost and Horowitz, Los Angeles, CA

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